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Show A-9 www.p4u4ccord.com WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 7, 2000 O EDUCATION EDITOR: Aaron Krenkei 4-0 1 4 ext 1 1 THE PARI RECORD :n . , . , Briefs Volunteers needed! Etgle Scout Leith Strachan wilt be wortang with the Treasure Mountain Mide School Earth Kids to upgrade the amphitheater on the Treasure Mountain Nature Preserve. The nature preserve is focsted immediately north of Treasure Maintain Middle School. Those woridng on the project will lay stone to cover the benches and the stage of the amphitheater on Saturday, May 20, from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Please bring a wheelbarrow, gloves, hammer, and a chisel to help out For more information caR 649-3626. Soaring Wings enrollment underway Soaring Wings Montessori School is currently accepting appbcations for the 2000-2001 school year. Soaring Wings is a nonsectarian, private school offering programs for children ages one-and-a-haft to rxne years old. For more information stop by for a tour o! tha school any weekday bet.veen 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. .vis the Soaring W txjs website at www.soahngwings org or can 649-3626. The school is located in the Parte. City Education Educator Center, 1255 Park Ave. Norwegian Center summer programs The Norwegian Outdoor Exploration Center invites children in Ihe community to parficipaee in the Summer 2000 txDh Program. This year's list of activities includes ovemighi trips to the Oty of Rocks, the Green River, Yeiowstone, the Snake River, and the center's yurt in the Unta Mountains. The center's trained leaders wi ateo take participants on a numtxtr of nature treks in ihe surroundng mountains. Age groups range from five ant six year otto to 11 through 13 year olds. Space is sti avaiaole. Cal 649-5322 to reserve a spot today. )r Copy Communis education: the options abound Registration underway for classes ranging from remediation to art v ; by Aaron Krenkel OF THE RECORO STAFF The Park City School District has released its community education offerings offer-ings for the upcoming summer. According to Park City School District director of community education, educa-tion, the classes available for the summer sum-mer have a couple of different purposes. "Some are things we need to do. like remediation," said Tukuafu. Other classes, she said, tend to be more for recreational or enrichment pur Baby trees going home with Recycle Utah spring program delivers 3,000 saplings to area schools by Aaron Krenkel OF THE RECORD STAFF A tree for every elementary school student in the county. That is Recycle Utah's goal. ' . The Park City recycling center, w hich has been running outreach educational programs throughout the j, ear in local schools, started distributing the trees on Mond?y, May 15. By the end of the week, all public elementary schools in the county, as well as several of the private pri-vate ones, w ill have received a shipment of saplings. Recycle Utah director Insa Riepen said of the tree-distribution program, "We sre banding them out to commemorate commem-orate Earth Day." She explained that in late April, and on Earth Day itself, the risk of weather damaging the trees was simply too great. Now that summer is near, approximately approxi-mately 3.000 trees w ill be making their way into student hands. Students may plant the two-year old shoots wherever they please. Riepen said, "It they make it home, our chance of having more than 10 percent survive is pretty good." By the cad of the week. Recycle Utah will have delivered 520 trees to I tree. A-10 poses. "Some are requests I hear from teachers or parents." Others are classes that Tukuafu. who has worked on community com-munity education programs elsewhere, added to the course listing. While the district does not offer classes class-es for adults during the summer, it expands its offerings for children who are out of school for summer vacation. Tukuafu explained that the district doesn't offer adult community education classes during the summer because it has found decreased enrollment for adult , offerings during the summer. "People are reslly pretty busy in the summer." However, she said, the opposite is true for Park City students. "During the school year, kids have more going on, more limited time." The district offers summer remedia 0 . CD i 1 u . ,v 1 1 ::: -rfJ Colby School students Abbye Raitton and Thea Henney hold their young Colorado blue spruce saplings bofore heading off to plant them. Recycle Utah delivered the trees to Colby and other elementary schools throughout the cow part I eaMdalaye4arth Day activities.. a lA VJL 1 1 V .'I.aUjJi;,,; W0 II tion programs for middle school and high school students. As the summer community education course listings stale, the high school remediation classes class-es are for "students who have failed core credit subject areas." ' Courses offered include English. U.S. history, geography, heaiih. physical education, edu-cation, algebra. ?eometry and intermediate intermedi-ate algebra. Tukuafu said the teachers are all certified educators, and many are in fad from within the school district. The classes run frora June 12 is July 21. Middle school remediation, according to the course listing, "heip students... to review school work in core subjects (English, math, social t'uuiet and science." sci-ence." Any student who failed a core subject or feels the need for review should attend, and students mav choose all Summit County students 11 only to attend classes in the subject area where they need to review. Costs for all summer remediation programs van depending on the number of sessions attended. High school remediation reme-diation is $45 per quarter credit plus a $15 registration fee. NJiddle School remediation costs $75 per section, or $150 dollars for two or three sections. Other offerings are less traditional "Wild Neighbors Nature Camp." for grades one through three, acquaints students stu-dents with "our wijd animal neighbors. The camp rans dunng ihe mornings, from June '9-23 A "Keepers of the Earth Nature Camp"" (grades tour through sn). running run-ning weekdays from June 2 to July 7. combines classroom meeting at Piease see So, A-10 ti Wl |